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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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Are We Safe During the London Olympics?
From July 27 to August 12, the 2012 Summer Olympics will take place in London, England, making London the first city ever to host the Games three times.
It?s certainly an honour for the city ? but what does it mean for the Londoners? With so many people coming to the city, we have to ask, ?Will we be safe during the London Olympics??
The venues
While it?s certain that the Olympic visitors will in no way restrict themselves to just watching the games, with all the other wonderful sights that London has to offer, it?s also taken for granted that the greatest concentration of crowds will occur at the Olympic event venues.
Naturally, these areas will pose the greatest security risks:
? The Olympic Zone. The opening and closing ceremonies will be held in the Olympic Stadium.
Other sports to be held in this area are athletics, fencing, handball, and modern pentathlon (fencing), cycling (BMX and track), field hockey, pool sports, basketball, and handball.? The River Zone. This includes four venues in the Thames Gateway area. The sports to be played here are boxing, wrestling, fencing, martial arts, table tennis, weightlifting, equestrian, modern pentathlon (riding, running, shooting), basketball, and gymnastics.
? The Central Zone, the venues of which are spread across west and central London ? including Hyde Park, Wembley Stadium, and Regent?s Park ? will feature tennis, volleyball, triathlon (swimming), archery, marathon running, road cycling, badminton, gymnastics, archery, and football.
? Outside Greater London. These venues include Dorney Lake for rowing and canoeing, Hadleigh Farm for mountain biking, Lee Valley White Water Centre for slalom canoeing, Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy for sailing, and Brands Hatch for the Paralympics road cycling.
Transportation
As far as crowds go, it?s not just the venues themselves we need to be concerned about.
People will need a way to get from here to there.When we made the bid for holding this Olympics event in London, the city?s public transport system received a poor score in the International Olympic Committee?s evaluation.
It was assumed, but not guaranteed, that the transportation condition would be improved in time for the Games. The East and North London lines, as well as the Docklands Light Railway, are to be upgraded and expanded. There is also the much-touted Olympic Javelin service.
But how sufficient all these upgrades will be when the Olympic crowds arrive remains to be seen.
Precautions
Having said that, here are some safety precautions to take if you plan to watch the London Olympics:
? Keep your bags zipped. Avoid taking out valuables such as your MP3 player, mobile phone, or wallet.
? If you find an unattended bag or package, let the police know about it immediately. Do the same if you see any other suspicious activities.
? Do not use earphones while in transport. These restrict your hearing and can delay your reaction to sudden danger signals.
? If you take your bike, park it properly and keep it locked. ? Do not be tempted you to take an unbooked minicab, despite any difficulties in transportation. These services are unsafe and uninsured. There are plenty of reputable London minicabs offer their services, which you can book in advance through licensed operators.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Cruise ships turned away over Falkland Islands stop
By Sue Bryant, Cruise Critic contributing editor
The diplomatic row between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands escalated a notch today when two ships carrying British passengers ? P&O Cruises' Adonia and Princess Cruises' Star Princess ? were turned away from the Argentine port of Ushuaia.
A spokeswoman for P&O Cruises said the official reason given for Adonia being denied entry to the port was "due to the ship having been in the Falkland Islands on Saturday." Adonia is on an 87-night round South America cruise.
Mention of Star Princess' visit to the Falkland Islands was also given in a statement from Princess Cruises. The ship is currently on a 14-night South America cruise that departed Rio de Janeiro on Feb. 18, and visited the British territory on Saturday.
Cruise Critic member Scrapchick is onboard Star Princess and commented on the message boards this morning: ?We ? were due in Ushuaia today after two days at sea since leaving Stanley, Falkland Islands [the islands' capital]. Last night we were told a container ship was in our berth and its crew were on strike so we could be delayed arriving in Ushuaia. At 7AM this morning the captain announced we were being denied entry to Ushuaia, along with the P&O Adonia, because both ships had come from the Falklands.?
The port from which a ship has just departed is usually not a point of contention. But 30 years after the Falklands War, the dispute between Britain and Argentina over sovereignty of the islands is threatening to boil over again. To that end, the Argentine government has recently issued a decree that all ships traveling between Argentina and the Falklands now need its permission to do so.
Although Star Princess visited Buenos Aires before Port Stanley without any problems, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph, both it and Adonia have been forced to bypass Ushuaia for that very reason: permission denied.
The antagonism works both ways. In January, Star Princess was refused entry to Port Stanley, ostensibly because it had a small outbreak of norovirus onboard, but suspicions arose that the ship was turned away because it was carrying some Argentine passengers.
Both ships have continued on to Punta Arenas, Chile, their next scheduled port of call. The cost of the passengers' excursions will be refunded. The next few ships due at either Port Stanley or Ushuaia ? which include Holland America Line's Veendam and Silversea's Silver Explorer ? are either coming from or headed for a Chilean port, so in theory they shouldn't be affected by the row.
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Monday, February 27, 2012
Academy Awards Fashion Face-Off: Sandra Bullock vs. Natalie Portman
The last two Best Actresses winners are featured in the following Fashion Face-Off.
While neither Sandra Bullock nor Natalie Portman were up for any Academy Awards this time around, each beauty made an impact on the ceremony, with the former presenting Best Foreign Language Film by speaking in German; and the latter handing Meryl Streep the second-to-last trophy of the evening.
But forget all that. All that really matters is the fashion, right? Contrast Bullock's black-and-white ensemble with Portman's red gown and vote on your favorite now.
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Brad DeLong: A Note on Fed Communications Policy
FEATURED: The 70% Solution: December 1, 2011: Project Syndicate
Via a circuitous Internet chain ? Paul Krugman of Princeton University quoting Mark Thoma of the University of Oregon reading the Journal of Economic Perspectives ? I got a copy of an article written by Emmanuel Saez, whose office is 50 feet from mine, on the same corridor, and the Nobel laureate economist Peter Diamond. Saez and Diamond argue that the right marginal tax rate for North Atlantic societies to impose on their richest citizens is 70%.
It is an arresting assertion, given the tax-cut mania that has prevailed in these societies for the past 30 years, but Diamond and Saez?s logic is clear. The superrich command and control so many resources that they are effectively satiated: increasing or decreasing how much wealth they have has no effect on their happiness. So, no matter how large a weight we place on their happiness relative to the happiness of others ? whether we regard them as praiseworthy captains of industry who merit their high positions, or as parasitic thieves ? we simply cannot do anything to affect it by raising or lowering their tax rates.
The unavoidable implication of this argument is that when we calculate what the tax rate for the superrich will be, we should not consider the effect of changing their tax rate on their happiness, for we know that it is zero. Rather, the key question must be the effect of changing their tax rate on the well-being of the rest of us.
From this simple chain of logic follows the conclusion that we have a moral obligation to tax our superrich at the peak of the Laffer Curve: to tax them so heavily that we raise the most possible money from them ? to the point beyond which their diversion of energy and enterprise into tax avoidance and sheltering would mean that any extra taxes would not raise but reduce revenue.
The utilitarian economic logic is clear. Yet more than half of us are likely to reject the conclusion reached by Diamond and Saez. We feel that there is something wrong with taxing our superrich until the pips squeak so much that further taxation reduces the number of pips. And we feel this for two reasons, both of them set out more than two centuries ago by Adam Smith ? not in his most famous work, The Wealth of Nations, but in his far less discussed book The Theory of Moral Sentiments.
The first reason applies to the idle rich. According to Smith:
"A stranger to human nature, who saw the indifference of men about the misery of their inferiors, and the regret and indignation which they feel for the misfortunes and sufferings of those above them, would be apt to imagine, that pain must be more agonizing, and the convulsions of death more terrible to persons of higher rank, than to those of meaner stations..."
We feel this, Smith believes, because we naturally sympathize with others (if he were writing today, he would surely invoke ?mirror neurons?). And the more pleasant our thoughts about individuals or groups are, the more we tend to sympathize with them. The fact that the lifestyles of the rich and famous ?seem almost the abstract idea of a perfect and happy state? leads us to ?pity?that anything should spoil and corrupt so agreeable a situation! We could even wish them immortal...?
The second reason applies to the hard-working rich, the type of person who:
"devotes himself forever to the pursuit of wealth and greatness....With the most unrelenting industry he labors night and day....serves those whom he hates, and is obsequious to those whom he despises....[I]n the last dregs of life, his body wasted with toil and diseases, his mind galled and ruffled by the memory of a thousand injuries and disappointments....he begins at last to find that wealth and greatness are mere trinkets of frivolous utility.... Power and riches....keep off the summer shower, not the winter storm, but leave him always as much, and sometimes more exposed than before, to anxiety, to fear, and to sorrow; to diseases, to danger, and to death...?
In short, on the one hand, we don?t wish to disrupt the perfect felicity of the lifestyles of the rich and famous; on the other hand, we don?t wish to add to the burdens of those who have spent their most precious possession ? their time and energy ? pursuing baubles. These two arguments are not consistent, but that does not matter. They both have a purchase on our thinking.
Unlike today?s public-finance economists, Smith understood that we are not rational utilitarian calculators. Indeed, that is why we have collectively done a very bad job so far in dealing with the enormous rise in inequality between the industrial middle class and the plutocratic superrich that we have witnessed in the last generation.
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
The Best Way to Correctly Take Care of Your 401(k) Rollover ...
Frequently, the particular terminology IRA rollover as well as 401(k) rollover are employed interchangeably because people use both terms to describe the transition of cash from a 401k plan to an IRA after they either change employers or retire. The reasons why it is preferred to move money from the 401k account when separating from the employer is for a broader selection of investments as well as potentially greater account growth along with increased control over your own retirement funds. The average 401k could possibly provide 4 to 10 investment selections whilst your individual IRA which is nearly unlimited in respect to your investment alternatives. In reality, a lot of people working for a business may attempt to transfer money from their 401k to their IRA to take advantages of these advantages and in some cases that may be possible.
How you will handle the particular mechanics of the 401k rollover is very important because the incorrect way can result in needless withholding taxes. When transferring funds from a 401k to an IRA, you can either get the check from the 401k administrator and then bring it to your brand new IRA custodian otherwise you can have the 401k manager deliver your money directly to your IRA custodian. The first choice is a bad decision for the reason that 401kmanager must withhold 20% of the balance in the event the check is being delivered to you. If the 401(k) rollover is completed directly between the 401k plan and your brand new IRA account, zero withholding is needed.
Whenever shifting cash from the 401k to an IRA rollover, it is occasionally beneficial not to roll over all assets. Specifically, shares of your employer that you have as part of your 401k as you could possibly get beneficial tax treatment if you take these shares out from the 401k and do not move them over. Specifically, much of the gain in those shares could possibly be eligible for capital gains tax. But if you rollover your stock to your IRA, the advantage will be gone forever.
Sometimes, the words IRA roll over is meant to describe your movement involving funds from a single IRA account to a new one. Here again, you can either obtain a check from one IRA custodian and carry it to the other or have the previous IRA custodian send your funds directly to your new IRA custodian. The second is really a preferable method to handle an IRA rollover as it reduces the risk for virtually any conditions that could result in unnecessary taxes for you. As there is no withholding if you take funds from an IRA bill, you will need to full the IRA rollover inside 60 days or the distribution will become taxable to you.
Observe that all funds taken out of an IRA or 401k isn?t entitled to rollover. One example is, whenever you become age 70 1/2, you?re faced with mandatory withdrawals from either kind of account. Whenever acquiring these obligatory distributions, they get reported on your tax return and are then subject to tax. You may not do an IRA rollover of these assets since they are definitely not eligible.
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ASUS Transformer TF101 Ice Cream Sandwich update rolling out now in the US
Update: Outside the land of the free and the home of the Daytona 500? You may still be in luck, we're hearing it's out in Canada, ASUS' UK Twitter account confirmed today's the day across the pond, plus ASUS gave the good news to the land down under via Facebook.
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Friday, February 24, 2012
A nun, football coach and Marine going to Oscars
Workers roll out the red carpet that will be used for the 84th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. The Academy Awards will be held Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
Workers roll out the red carpet that will be used for the 84th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. The Academy Awards will be held Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
Workers assemble signage for a truss that will hang over the red carpet at Sunday's 84th Academy Awards in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
An Oscar statuette is seen the red carpet before the 84th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. The Academy Awards will be held Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? At least one person on the Oscars red carpet won't have to worry about what to wear: Mother Dolores Hart.
The 73-year-old nun, who left Hollywood in 1963 to join a monastery after starring in films with the likes of Elvis Presley and George Hamilton, is among the nominated documentary film subjects slated to attend Sunday's 84th annual Academy Awards. Hart, who will be sporting her nun's habit, is chronicled in the short film "God Is the Bigger Elvis."
Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson, the short's filmmakers, said at a panel discussion at the motion picture academy's Beverly Hills headquarters Wednesday that Mother Dolores, who is a voting member of the academy and attended the ceremony three times before she became a nun, will walk the red carpet outside the Hollywood and Highland Center on Sunday.
Other nominated documentary film subjects expected to attend the Oscars include Bill Courtney, the white coach of an all-black, inner-city high-school football team featured in "Undefeated," and Sgt. Nathan Harris, a Marine injured in Afghanistan whose emotional struggle to transition back to life in North Carolina is depicted in "Hell and Back Again."
"I would encourage you, if any of you win, to bring them to the stage," filmmaker and academy documentary branch officer Michael Moore, who moderated the panel discussion with the nominees, told the filmmakers. "I know you've been told not to, but as the governor of your branch, I will be there, and I'll block any security that tries to prevent it."
It wouldn't be the first time the "Fahrenheit 9/11" filmmaker bucked academy rules. When he won the best documentary feature trophy in 2002 for "Bowling for Columbine," Moore brought the other documentary films nominees on stage with him and was infamously met with boos and cheers when he used his acceptance speech to denounce President George Bush.
Among this year's features, "Hell and Back Again" by Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner and "Undefeated" by T.J. Martin and Dan Lindsay will face environmental epic "If a Tree Falls" by Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman; West Memphis Three installment "Paradise Lost 3" by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky; and 3-D choreography chronicle "Pina" by Wim Wenders.
The short film "God Is the Bigger Elvis" is up against the civil-rights profile "The Barber of Birmingham" by Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin; Iraq War account "Incident in New Baghdad" by James Spione; acid attack saga "Saving Face" by Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy; and disaster portrait "The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom" by Lucy Walker.
Several of the nominated filmmakers lamented during Wednesday's panel that documentaries are the lesser seen and lesser distributed films among those nominated for Oscars. Wenders, who presents the work of choreographer Pina Bausch in 3-D in "Pina," said the technological evolution is the "secret weapon" to making documentaries feel more cinematic.
"What we as documentary filmmakers try to do is take the audience into somebody's world," said Wenders. "When you see a person in front of you shot in 3-D, it's a different presence. It's a whole different thing. You can tell your stories in a way that immerse the audience like never before. I'm convinced this is the future of the documentary language."
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Find My Past Blog - Ask the expert - crucial 1841 census return
Our resident expert Stephen Rigden, pictured below, answers your queries.
From Norman Martin:
?Hi I have a problem with my breeze/Bullen ancestry. What I know:
Alfred Breeze Married Mary Ann Bullen at the Chapel of Pulham St. Mary Magdelen Norfolk on 9 October 1842. The bride?s father is given on the wedding certificate as Benjamin Bullen. His occupation is organ builder. The couple are both listed as living in Pulham St. Mary Magdelen at the time of the marriage. Witnesses were John Gowing and Maria Cann, who are both given as being of full age.
In the 1841 census, Alfred is living with his father William in Long Row Gissing Norfolk. His age is given as 19. I cannot be at all certain of Mary Ann Bullen. In 1841 there is a Mary Ann Bullen living in Hempnall with a Benjamin Bullen who is listed as a watch maker. Mary Ann is 22 and Benjamin is 37, barely old enough to be her father.
In the 1851 census, Alfred and Mary Ann are together living in Pulham St Mary Magdelen. Alfred?s age is given as 27, making his date of birth 1824. The census gives his place of birth as Aslacton Norfolk. Mary Ann?s age is given as 32, making her date of birth as 1819. She is listed as being born in Pulham St Mary Magdelen.
I believe that Alfred?s age is incorrect in the 1851 census as he was baptised on 28 September 1823 with his brother Louis and his sister Caroline. My problem is that I cannot find a birth registration for Mary Ann Bullen with a father named Benjamin. The only birth I can find in Pulham in that period for Mary Ann Bullen is a daughter of Joseph Bullen who was also a watch maker but is referred to as an organ builder in the 1851 census. Mary Ann?s birth date is 16 September 1817.
Joseph may well be the brother of Benjamin and in business together. There is still an example of a Bullen organ in a Norfolk Church, I believe. I would be grateful for any help in resolving Mary Ann.?
Stephen says:
?Dear Norman
I have taken a look at the problematic situation described in your email. My opinion is that Mary Ann was the daughter of Joseph Bullen and that Benjamin Bullen was her brother.
A key document is the 1841 census, in particular, a census return for Pulham St Mary Magdalen with the following reference: series HO107, piece 758, book 25, folio 23, page 38. This shows Joseph Bullen, organ builder, as head of household with his wife Sophia and inferred children, including Benjamin. Ages are rounded, as is usual with the 1841 census, e.g., Joseph is recorded as 45 (which means aged 45 to 49 years) and Benjamin is 20 (i.e., aged 20 to 24 years = born circa 1817-1821). In 1841 Benjamin is a handicraftsman. Mary Ann is not in the family home.
I believe that the Mary Ann Bullen living with watchmaker Benjamin in 1841, if relevant at all, is part of something other than the usual parent and children nuclear household. The ages have not been rounded down: Benjamin 37, Mary Ann 22 and eldest minor John 8. Were Mary Ann the mother of John, she would have had to have had him aged 14. Were Mary Ann the daughter of Benjamin, then he would have had to have had her aged 15. Neither scenario is likely. It is true that this Mary Ann could be the second wife of this Benjamin, but we know this Benjamin is not the Benjamin who is the son of organ builder Joseph and we also know the true Mary Ann marries Alfred Breeze in the following year.
One possible explanation could be that this is indeed your Mary Ann unmarried and living with an uncle of the same name as her brother, i.e., watchmaker Benjamin would then be Joseph?s brother. Equally, however, this census return could refer to a completely unrelated family group. I would need to undertake further research to decide.
If Mary Ann was of full age at her 1842 marriage, she would have been at least 21 years of age, i.e., born before 1821. Her recorded age of 32 on the 1851 census would indicate a date of birth circa 1818/19. Assuming that you have done a thorough search of baptism records for Pulham parish, I would, therefore, accept your 1817 entry for Mary Ann as the correct one. Note that this would make her a year or two older than Benjamin, who was born circa 1819/20 according to the 1851 census. This would also suggest why she is not with the family in 1841.
If the above scenario is correct, then Joseph was the father of Mary Ann, while Benjamin was acting in loco parentis at the 1842 marriage of Mary Ann, or there was simply a clerical error at registration and his name was recorded instead of Joseph?s. I hope this helps a little.?
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Harris new rugged tablet brings Honeycomb to your local combat-zone
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2012NAB...Salutes The Military And Government, too... : Satnews ...
2012NAB...Salutes The Military And Government, too...
[SatNews] It's not just the glitz of showbiz at 2012NAB ? there'll be plenty of brass, too.
The military and government will be reperesented at 2012 NAB. Are video and data important to your mission? This Summit bridges the gap between government needs and cutting-edge commercial video applications and related technologies. The objective is to bring military, government, and commercial interests together in order to facilitate new ideas and business relationships. The summit has three elements, one for each day: Day 1, Challenges, Day 2 Solutions, and Day 3 Opportunities.
While you plan your programs, here is a sneak peek at what is planned for the military/government side of the show.
The Military & Government Summit
? Leveraging Media to Create Actionable Intelligence
The Military & Government Summit offers the unique opportunity for professionals from the government and commercial sectors to discuss needs and solutions based on cutting-edge video technologies.
The NAB Show has long been the premiere event for those immersed in digital media hardware and software applications. The Summit focuses on the challenges faced by government and industry, identifies solutions for those challenges, and looks toward future opportunities.
Cameras and sensors, efficient workflow analogies, asset management and complementary best practices are all part of the discussion as they relate to emergency response, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
Experts from government agencies define their needs and are joined by their peers from industry offering the commercial perspective on possible solutions.
Attendees are invited to interact with speakers and panelists during morning sessions. In the afternoon, time is provided to visit and talk with exhibitors on the NAB Show floor. If you are seeking commercial solutions to your mission-critical needs or if you are looking for opportunities to work with government agencies, this is the event for you.
The Challenges ? Day One
Tuesday, April 17
Moderator: Joseph Smith, NGA
Summit Day One lays out the challenges facing military and government agencies as they tackle the explosion of data and the issues of content management, while providing actionable intelligence to decision-makers. Speakers from government and industry will offer their perspectives.
Wednesday, April 18
Moderator: John Bordner, Seicorp
Summit Day Two investigates various solutions to the needs of government and industry ? what is being done now, success rates, necessary improvements and potential innovations.
Thursday, April 19
Moderator: TBA
Summit Day Three explores new possibilities that are on the horizon based on previous discussions and technology trends.
The Solutions ? Day Two
The Opportunities ? Day Three
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Unleash the Hounds: Wiener Nationals dog race returns to Lubbock ...
Lubbock's finest dachshunds will compete for the title of top dog in a dash to the finish line this Saturday. The race is not a typical dog show. The dash is to find the fastest dachshund in the Southwest.
The 16th annual Wienerschnitzel Wiener Nationals Lubbock will be held on the Texas Tech University Recreation Field beginning at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. The final race will be during the halftime show of the Texas Tech men's basketball game vs. UT.
The winners will be given a cash prize and a trip to the Holiday Bowl for the 2012 Wiener National Finals in San Diego.
Entry forms are available at all Lubbock Wienerschnitzel locations.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Rockies manager Jim Tracy has indefinite extension (AP)
AP - Rockies manager Jim Tracy could become a Colorado lifer. He would love that, and general manager Dan O'Dowd would love that, too.
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Tennis Bet and its INS and out
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Monday, February 20, 2012
Financial debt Management and Credit card debt settlement ...
If you will need a new car when you?re in the debt control plan we debt management advice options available as well as the effect these have on ones DMP. We think about what actions it is easy to take to swap the issue.
The to begin with step interested in managing could be debt is almost always to determine how much money he owes. Some get suffered employment loss and also illness, and experience to trust in their bank plastic to meet day by day expenses. Others are usually making smallest payments monthly, and care about the interest on the total equilibrium.
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Ichiro heads into final year of deal with Mariners
updated 8:38 p.m. ET Feb. 18, 2012
PEORIA, Ariz. - No one really knows when Ichiro Suzuki will retire. The 38-year-old outfielder is heading into the final year of his contract with Seattle and isn't discussing a new deal.
There he was on Saturday, though, beginning his 12th spring training with the Mariners as the team held its first full-squad workout of 2012.
Naturally, there was a bit more buzz around camp than usual. More fans showed up to watch and get autographs. More media from Japan arrived, following Suzuki's every move. And when asked about his future, Suzuki said it was difficult to say how long he plans to keep playing.
"When I first came in 2001, I never thought that I would be here in 2012," he said through translator Antony Suzuki. "You can wish you'd be there, but you never know. So it's the little things that count and it's the little things that you build off, to where you've come this far."
Suzuki, a 10-time All-Star and the franchise leader in hits ? including 10 straight seasons of 200 or more from 2001-10 ? provided a show on Day 1. He hit seven home runs during batting practice.
The Mariners can likely count on offensive production from Suzuki despite a down year in 2011, when he had 184 hits but batted below .300 (.272) for the first time since joining the Mariners in 2001.
"I go through the same process in the offseason. I feel fresh, ready to go for the challenge," Suzuki said. "If those numbers were in '01, a lot of people would have said, 'Hey, this guy can play.' Expectations are very high."
The Mariners are coming off a 67-95 season that produced a last-place finish in the AL West. Suzuki didn't sound totally opposed to being dropped from his customary leadoff spot in the batting order, a move manager Eric Wedge eventually plans to discuss with him.
Suzuki said with two Japanese teammates, infielder Munenori Kawasaki and pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma, he has a lot of pride in the rise of his country's baseball talent. Suzuki said he heard he was Kawasaki's baseball hero growing up, that Kawasaki would imitate him and wanted to play for the Mariners because of Suzuki.
"You look at other countries, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic, they have a lot of stars that perform at this level," Suzuki said, "and when you compare Japan to those countries, we're not there yet. That's what I look forward to saying in the future."
The Mariners play in Japan in March, two regular-season games against the Oakland Athletics at the end of the month. Suzuki looks forward to going back to his native land for those games.
"We've never had that opportunity before, so it's new for me and it's new for the team," he said. "This is something that we will probably have once in a lifetime, so I look forward to that and would like to take advantage of that."
Notes: The Mariners sent OF Mike Wilson outright to Triple-A Tacoma, then invited him to big league spring training as a non-roster invite. The 28-year-old Wilson played eight games for the Mariners last season after getting called up in May. The club's spring training roster is at 67 players.
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Sunday, February 19, 2012
Robin Thicke arrested in New York for pot (Reuters)
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Xiang gets better of Robles as rivalry resumes
BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) ? Liu Xiang beat Dayron Robles in a resumption of their hurdling rivalry before the London Olympics, and Lerone Clarke upstaged Jamaican rival Asafa Powell in the 60-meter sprint at the Birmingham Grand Prix on Saturday.
Xiang ran a flawless 60-meter hurdles final in 7.41 seconds, with the Chinese star almost a tenth of a second ahead of world record-holder Robles in their first meeting since at last year's world championships.
"I am especially happy to get a national as well as Asian record," Xiang said. "I still feel though that over the first two hurdles I didn't do very well and that there is work to be done there. I am excited about the rest of the year now."
In South Korea in August, Robles finished first over 110 meters but was disqualified for impeding Xiang, who ended up winning a silver medal after being on course for gold. Now they are gearing up for the Olympic showdown that was denied in 2008 when Xiang limped off the starting line in Beijing and Robles took his Olympic title.
"The main task is to keep healthy and try to get in step before the Olympics," Xiang said.
Jamaica will be based in Birmingham before the Olympics, and Clarke led a Jamaican 1-2-3 sweep in the central English city by winning in 6.47 seconds.
"I knew that all I had to do was get out of the blocks and drive hard," Clarke said. "Get up and run home and it didn't matter who was out front, just focus on me."
Powell finished third in his return to indoor competition after an eight-year absence. Nesta Carter was second.
"Asafa Powell, Nesta Carter, they're all fast guys and to come here and win," Clarke said. "It's fantastic. I've never been to an Olympics so it would be a great addition to my career if I can do that now."
In the women's 60 meters, former world long jump champion Tianna Madison won in 7.07 seconds, with the American finishing 0.07 seconds ahead of Bulgaria's Ivet Lalova.
The home crowd was disappointed when world 5,000-meter champion Mo Farah was beaten over 2 miles by Eliud Kipchoge, finishing 0.68 seconds behind the Kenyan in second place.
"When I saw five or six laps to go my legs just felt heavy, I just didn't have that change of gear as they came past me," he said. "It's not any injury, it's nothing. I can't exactly explain."
There were seven British victories, led by Jessica Ennis running the fastest time this year (7.87 seconds) in the 60 hurdles. The other winners were: Holly Bleasdale (pole vault), J.J. Jegede and Shara Proctor (long jump), Robbie Grabarz (high jump) and Shana Cox and Nigel Levine (400).
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
The Voice Judges: Returning For Season 3 ... This Fall!
All four judges on NBC's hit singing competition series The Voice will return to the NBC hit for a third season that will air in the fall instead of the winter.
Christina Aguilera previously agreed to return for $10 million next season. Now, Cee-Lo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton are back on board too.
All with substantial pay raises, according to those close to the negotiations. Green, Levine and Shelton will see their pay roughly doubled to $6 million.
Insiders say Levine had been holding out because of a scheduling issue. He and his band, Maroon 5, have an album nearing completion, and tour dates and promotion of the new record had to move to accommodate the show's move to the fall.
It looks like that worked out, though, and not a moment too soon for NBC.
It averages an 8.4 rating/21 share in the crucial 18-49 demographic and 21.3 million viewers overall. It owes that average largely to huge ratings for the Season 2 premiere, debuting after the Super Bowl, but nevertheless, it's a success.
Moving to the fall would have the show, now a mid-season hit, airing at the same time of year as Fox's The X-Factor ... and being a lot more entertaining.
Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/02/the-voice-judges-all-returning-for-season-3-this-fall/
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Friday, February 17, 2012
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Home loans Home Finance Loan: Is The Costume For You ...
You can find several types of lending products you can buy. One of those is the Federal housing administration mortgages personal loan. But the history and how might you benefit from it? The Federal housing administration mortgages or maybe the Fha covers such type of personal loan. This is certainly created to help individuals period of time to nominal revenue. The insurer from the Federal housing administration mortgages minimizes the possibility of credit a certain amount to people payday loans belong to the said revenue mark up.
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Why is this ideal is simply because it doesn?t require to manufacture a massive advance payment. Downpayment for such type of personal loan could go as cash loans online as 3% with the home benefit. Moreover, the settlement costs are reduced and also the HUD handles it.
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A single belief about such type of personal loan is that it lends the client just how much he desires, which is not true. Federal housing administration mortgages doesn?t provide loans funds fairly it covers the financial loan. Consequently if the client doesn?t make the transaction, the Federal housing administration mortgages can pay the provider in account with the client.
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Federal housing administration mortgages personal loan really rewards some people. Whilst you can actually meet the requirements, verify should this be the type of personal loan that fits your needs. Bear in mind, you are able to only access a fixed amount of cash. if you feel that it is sufficient buy the household you want, then go for it.
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
More than $4 billion recovered in health care fraud
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Important Snoring Tips Everyone Should Use | New Health and ...
With so many things on your plate at any given time, the very last thing that you would ever want to deal with is another sleepless night. For many people, however, snoring leads to just that. Whether you are the culprit or are just subjected to the snoring of another person, this article is sure to help.
Do your best to avoid sleeping on your back if you have been dealing with bad snoring. Some people have even sewn tennis balls onto their shirts to prevent them from doing it while asleep! This seems painful, but you do what works best for you. You can also try using special pillows and other special anti-snoring bed items to help prevent you from snoring.
Avoid sleeping on your stomach if you have a tendency to snore at night. Your neck bends backward when you are laying on your stomach, and this causes your airway to become obstructed. When your throat is squeezed like that, you will snore as you struggle to pull the air through.
Sleeping while having your head raised higher than the rest of your body will help prevent snoring. You can prop the whole front of the bed up, or you can elevate your head and part of your upper body. Do not just elevate your head, as this actually restricts breathing further.
If you have a problem with snoring, try raising the head of your mattress about 4 inches. This will keep your tongue and the tissues of your throat and palate from blocking your airway which can cause snoring. You can do this by placing an object under the mattress or you can also elevate your head with extra pillows.
An excellent way to prevent yourself from sleeping on your back when you suffer from constant snoring is sewing a tennis ball on the back of the shirt you?re wearing to bed. Because it?s uncomfortable to sleep on top of a tennis ball, this will stop you from sleeping on your back at night.
There are also special sprays for your throat that will help combat annoying snoring. They provide lubrication to your throat and nasal passageways making air have less trouble traveling through. They also decrease the overall friction which makes vibrations near your uvula less noticeable. You can get these over the counter and they also make herbal varieties of these sprays.
A chin strap could help you to quit snoring. It is a very simple device that has a fabric chin cup with adjustable straps that go around the top of your head. It will help to support your jaw and keep it in the closed and forward position. It helps to keep your tongue from dropping back into your throat area and eliminate snoring.
One way to help keep from snoring is to avoid tranquilizers at bedtime. While tranquilizers might help you sleep faster, they will also relax the muscles that hold your nasal passages fully open. They will contract partially, and air will have a harder time getting through ? and you will snore.
If all other snoring remedies have failed you, it might be time to consider getting surgery to help alleviate your snoring. These days surgery on the nose and throat has been shown to cure snoring in over 70% of patients with most of them never snoring again. However, this should be a last resort.
There are a number of throat sprays available that claim to help some with their snoring. The idea is that for some people, the throat passages become dry as they breath during the night. These sprays lubricate your throat and airways and keep this dryness from causing your snoring.
With any luck, the information from this article has offered some insight into solving your snoring problem. Snoring usually isn?t a life-threatening condition, but you can be sure that it is beyond annoying. Preserve your sanity and get a full night of uninterrupted sleep by applying the tips and tricks from this article.
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Source: http://newhealthandfitness.org/2012/02/15/important-snoring-tips-everyone-should-use/
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
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